Charles Kramer

Charles Kramer, originally Charles Krevitsky was an economist for who worked for four congressional committees in his career as a Soviet spy. Kramer worked for four congressional committees while being a member of the Washington D.C. based Perlo group of Soviet spies during the 1940's.

Kramer provided information to the Soviets from his position as staff member of the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization on a dispute among American policy makers concerning the Comité National Français, or Free French National Committee of Charles de Gaulle and an internal U.S. government investigation of German corportate links to American companies. Kramer also passed information from the Democratic National Committee about President Truman's likely appointments in the State Department and views of Truman by various Senators.

Venona

Kramer is referred to in Soviet intelligence intercepts and the Venona files as "Plumb", "Lot" and "Mole". Kramer is referenced in the following decrypts:

588 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944

687 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944

1015 KGB New York to Moscow, 22 July 1944

1163 KGB New York to Moscow, 15 August 1944

"Mole"'s reporting and Kramer's contemporaneous activity concur in an extremely tight fashion, although NSA and FBI analysts list code name "Mole" as "unidentified". "Mole" is used as a code name only after "Plumb", Kramer's previous identified cover name was no longer used in Venona transcripts.

3612 KGB Washington to Moscow, 22 June 1945

3640 KGB Washington to Moscow, 23 June 1945

3655 KGB Washington to Moscow, 25 June 1945

3706 KGB Washington to Moscow, 29 June 1945

3709 KGB Washington to Moscow, 29 June 1945

3710 KGB Washington to Moscow, 29 June 1945

Sources

Charles Kramer testimony, 6 May 1953, “Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments,” Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 83d Cong., 1st sess., part 6, 327–381.